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diff --git a/doc/paradigms.md b/doc/paradigms.md index 681519fb..c575caaf 100644 --- a/doc/paradigms.md +++ b/doc/paradigms.md @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ # BQN in programming paradigms -It hangs onto weakly positive connotations somehow, but the term "multi-paradigm" should not really impress you. Let's dig into exactly which paradigms BQN supports and how. +It hangs onto weakly positive connotations somehow, but the term "multi-paradigm" shouldn't impress you. Let's dig into exactly which paradigms BQN supports and how. -This information won't really tell you what tasks BQN is good for: after all, it turns out you can write an efficient compiler entirely using array programming, something many people assumed was impossible. Instead, it tells you what approaches you can take to writing programs, and how comfortable you'll find it to work with BQN—or how much you can use it to stretch your brain in new directions. +This information doesn't tell you what tasks BQN is good for: after all, it turns out you can write an efficient compiler entirely using array programming, something many people assumed was impossible. Instead, it tells you what approaches you can take to writing programs, and how comfortable you'll find it to start using BQN—or how much you can use it to stretch your brain in new directions. When programming in BQN, I almost always use array, tacit, and (slightly impure) functional styles, and encapsulate code in medium or large projects using namespaces. I sometimes use object-oriented or imperative programming in addition to these. diff --git a/docs/doc/paradigms.html b/docs/doc/paradigms.html index 27df4657..f2340dd8 100644 --- a/docs/doc/paradigms.html +++ b/docs/doc/paradigms.html @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ </head> <div class="nav"><a href="https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN">BQN</a> / <a href="../index.html">main</a> / <a href="index.html">doc</a></div> <h1 id="bqn-in-programming-paradigms">BQN in programming paradigms</h1> -<p>It hangs onto weakly positive connotations somehow, but the term "multi-paradigm" should not really impress you. Let's dig into exactly which paradigms BQN supports and how.</p> -<p>This information won't really tell you what tasks BQN is good for: after all, it turns out you can write an efficient compiler entirely using array programming, something many people assumed was impossible. Instead, it tells you what approaches you can take to writing programs, and how comfortable you'll find it to work with BQN—or how much you can use it to stretch your brain in new directions.</p> +<p>It hangs onto weakly positive connotations somehow, but the term "multi-paradigm" shouldn't impress you. Let's dig into exactly which paradigms BQN supports and how.</p> +<p>This information doesn't tell you what tasks BQN is good for: after all, it turns out you can write an efficient compiler entirely using array programming, something many people assumed was impossible. Instead, it tells you what approaches you can take to writing programs, and how comfortable you'll find it to start using BQN—or how much you can use it to stretch your brain in new directions.</p> <p>When programming in BQN, I almost always use array, tacit, and (slightly impure) functional styles, and encapsulate code in medium or large projects using namespaces. I sometimes use object-oriented or imperative programming in addition to these.</p> <h2 id="typing">Typing</h2> <p>BQN is a <strong>dynamically typed</strong> language with a coarse <a href="types.html">type system</a> that only distinguishes types when the difference is blindingly obvious. There is a single numeric type and a single unicode character type. A fast implementation such as dzaima/BQN will check to see when it can represent the data with a smaller type than the one offered by the language. BQN usually avoids implicit type conversion, with the exception that many primitives automatically convert atoms to unit arrays. The fact that a data value can be applied as a function to return itself could also be considered an implicit conversion.</p> |